I have no problem tellin you my maintinance schedule step by step.
After a week (give or take a few days) i take each plant out one at a time and put one in a seperate 5 gallon bucket while i clean that plants bucket. First i dump the nutes, then i turn the bathtub water up as hot as it can go and i let it fill up. once its pretty much full i turn off the water and dump the bucket. then fill my bucket up with luke warm water and add bleach. i take a washcloth and scrub the sides and bottom untill i feel i got any left over grime or gunky stuff (if any was there but better safe than sorry).
next id fill and empty the bucket over and over and scrub with a NEW washcloth to get the excess bleach off. i fill with cold to the touch water and start PHing my water before i add nutes. i PH it in between 5.1 - 6.0(not too worried if i get it right at 5.6 the first time. then add even amounts of my base nutrients part A and part B of advanced nutrients. right now my white widow is at 980 PPM and 5.6 PH the White Russian#1 is at 900 PPM 5.5 PH and the White russian#2 is at 713 PPM 5.6 PH.
I adjust my PH twice a day. the first time i PH down is withing 4 hours of lights on in the morning. second time is ALWAYS before lights out. the highest my ph goes from lights out at 10:45pm till 4:45am is 5.8 last night my White Widow was at 950, i woke up it was at 910. so mine goes down then i add to what all water it ate. i keep a mental note of where the water line is on all of them. its always the same spot for all 3 each time so i add water mixed with a 1/8 tsp-1 tsp of my base nutes then(if my PH is at 5.8 and i want 5.6) i add PH down and i have my PH down pretty much figured out. i usually add 5-6 SOMETIMES 7 drops of PH down to the water and it will drop me .2 on my PH meter.
one thing i want to emphasize on is ive never had my PPM rise too much yet. i usually catch it going down and have to add what it drank up lol.
ok now I got it lol
so i understand the mix ups
